India’s worst rail disaster in decades convulses country dependent on trains

a solemn scene was playing out at a small school a few hundred yards away.

The toll, exceptionally large even in a nation with a long history of deadly crashes, has renewed long-standing questions about safety problems in a system that transports more than 8 billion passengers a year. As Mr Modi left the scene after reviewing the wreckage, a large police contingent struggled to hold back a crowd of thousands who had gathered nearby. Excavators removed what was left of the collided trains, and railway workers tried to clear the tracks so train service could restart.

After smashing into the freight train, the passenger train, with 1,257 passengers, derailed. Twenty-one of its coaches bounced off the track, with three of them sprawled onto another track. “The train was to go for the main line, but signal pointer was given for the loop line. That is what the supervisors have pointed out,” Mr Chaudhary said. “Lots of many ifs and buts are there. It has to be checked and cross checked.”

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